What Yellow Vetch supports

27 native animals
supported in the US

2 caterpillars 14 food 11 flowers

Caterpillars All

2 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

• Chionodes lugubrella
• Long-winged Shade Cnephasia longana

Plant eaters All

14 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

• Broadbean Weevil Bruchus rufimanus
• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
• Redpoll Acanthis flammea
• Fleahopper Halticus apterus
• Clover Head Weevil Hypera meles
• Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae

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Flower visitors All

11 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

• Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
• Woolly-tailed Marsh Fly Helophilus hybridus
• Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
• Red Mason Bee Osmia bicornis
• Banded Mud Bee Megachile ericetorum
• Mountain Mason Bee Osmia inermis
• Tricolored Bumble Bee Bombus ternarius
• Half-black Bumble Bee Bombus vagans

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